Or they used PhoneView, an app for Mac that allows one to view contacts, messages, photos, call history, etc without typing in the passcode.
From an unencrypted backup on your computer. Which you prevent by turning on "encrypted backups". Plus Apple gave them the phone's backups ages ago, and they f***ed up the phones ability to create more backups.
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Them getting into the phone isn't the issue, it's
how it went down. Apple said they didn't want to help because of the risk of the method getting out into the wild. They could have just helped, kept it quiet and we may never have known, instead they practically dared the creation of a method that they now have no control over themselves.
Hard for Apple to keep it quiet if they read in the newspapers that the FBI took them to court.
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That method doesn't work on new phones, and people are always trying to crack the iPhone. They didn't need this case to do it. It was pretty clear that Apple believes the NSA might be sitting on a zero day attack themselves that they don't want to share. They didn't "practically dare" them, they told them to hack it themselves, no "practically" involved. I'm not sure why it's difficult to understand that Apple wants nothing to do with writing and signing software that can compromise their own phones.
It is quite possible that the NSA could hack into that iPhone 5c. It is absolutely impossible that the NSA would make that ability public to help the FBI in something that is clearly nothing more than a publicity stunt. The phone was the killer's works phone, and had a four digit passcode. If I had things that I never, ever want the police to see, they wouldn't be on my works phone, and they wouldn't be on a phone with a four digit passcode.
Here's a possibility: FBI gave the phone to the NSA, saying "try if you can hack into it". NSA opens the phone, finds nothing of value, closes it, says to the FBI "sorry, we can't".
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Anyway, now that the contents of the phone are accessible, maybe they can show us all the nefarious plans hidden within so we know we're all safer now and they can justify the stupidity of wanting Apple to do their job for them.
Didn't you get the message that there is a dangerous computer virus hidden on the phone that endangers all of America? No way can they publicise anything from the phone without risking your freedom and money.
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Wasn't the ability to "hack" the phone just the ability to clone the iOS image so it could run in some type of emulator? You could then run multiple copies of the image and try as many possible PINs as you could until you unlocked one of the clones.
It must have been posted more than hundred times that this doesn't work. Only the original phone can unlock the data of that phone. There are three keys: The passcode, a key that is openly visible on the flash drive, and a key that is built into the CPU and cannot be extracted from it. You need all three, so emulator is out.
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So the FBI is admitting they paid "professional hackers" to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which was passed by a unanimous vote of the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Clinton in 1998?
DMCA is only for circumventing copy protection methods. Since the owner of the phone allowed the FBI to access it, that's fine. If the killer had been the owner, they would have had a search warrant and still be fine.
